Hello! Considering this is your first attempt on structure, you're doing fine. It will help if you used a fineliner / pen / darker pencil so that we can see your artwork better! :) Anyways, here's some tips you could try out. I'll come back with a better explanation with pictures later when I start doing the structure lesson in this course. I happened to have some experience with structure in another course. Firstly, it helps to draw through things, as if you have X-ray vision. I.e Drawing the other sides / faces / lines of a box instead of just drawing the faces that are visible Especially when starting out on structure, we aren't too concerned with likeness or whether it looks good. The most important thing is that it looks convincingly 3D, constructed from basic forms like the box, cube, cylinder, etc., perhaps from organic forms if you're comfortable. As such, you don't just want to draw the silhouette, you want to draw through the entire form, x-ray vision and everything. It help you understand how exactly a form sits on another form, or how it intersects. Also, it will help greatly to construct things with boxes or forms that have defined planes and faces (i.e a box). A box has clear indications of where it is facing and it's orientation, and constructing things and animals using the box will force us to think about orientation. It's something like what you have done with the heads of the giraffes. Perhaps you might want to try doing it with the body. This will provide you with a meaningful challenge that improves your spatial reasoning skills. Another thing, you can also try building up a complex form, such as a giraffe, instead of trying to capture it all in one shot. For example, you can start with a long rectangular box for the torso, then add on some lumps on its back, then the legs, etc. etc. This will give you a basic framework to work off of and help you find your bearings as to where each protrusion and dent is, and what kind of additional form has to be slapped on to match what is seen in the reference. Deconstructing animals into basic forms and structuralising them is harder than it looks, so don't feel discouraged after a few wonky results. Also, there are a few things that are quite important before we can see our attempts in structure being fruitful. 1. Knowing how to draw the basic box / cube. This is a test of perspective, whether we know how to direct the lines into which vanishing point where, and by how much due to foreshortening. Once you are able to draw a box with it's lines accurately converging to appropriate vanishing points, the next level is to be able to be able to rotate them in any orientation you wish. The box is a basic tool in construction. You'll be using this a lot. 2. Being able to wrap contour lines around a rounded form well enough to communicate a convicing form that looks 3D, like you can reach into the paper and grab it. Here's Marshal Vandruff's video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFKMw8YekFY&ab_channel=Proko Try drawing a few sausages and then wrapping them with contour lines. The reason why this will be useful is that when you draw organic, blobby shapes for structure, you'll need to sell the form of that shape, instead of it simply being a 2D blob. Irshad Karim, an instructor on Proko, has a course called Drawabox, or you can simply visit his Youtube channel (Uncomfortable) to see how you explains the concepts and the assignments he gives. At least for myself, he has information on the more basics of the basics, perhaps all of which are needed to be intuitively understood (having practised enough) before I could imagine attempting the exercises here appropriately. He also has a supportive discord community that gives critical feedback, something you can benefit from. (I hope this isn't going against Proko's TOS, since the course is free, and supplements the courses here.) It'll teach you all the basics of the basics and really challenge and level up your spatial reasoning skills for construction. I'm revisiting Proko and the figure drawing course after gaining quite a few skills from Irshad Karim's stuff, having practised enough to be able to tackle this course more effectively. Construction is actually quite the advanced topic, especially for novices like myself. It requires a bunch of other fundamental skills like perspective, before we can pull of structuralising animals well. I had to practice drawing boxes for 2 weeks, 250 of them, before I could get the hang of how to converge lines accurate to vanishing points to get an accurate looking box. Lastly, it is always great to look at the homework of other students and model examples to see how they solve spatial problems, and try to replicate that in your own practice. I hope this helps! (pardon any typos, can't be bothered to spellcheck or grammar) edit: This is my amateur opinion on the matter, so it might help getting differing opinions. I'm not an art teacher, just another person trying to learn art. I might be wrong about certain things, though I hope I'm not. :) -Fat Squirrel

I don't think it matter TBH.

I’m a newbie too doing lesson one. Good job at staying below 8 lines!